C230 Capital Reaction

Looking at Situ Qingyun's expression, how could Murong Fenghuang not see the astonishment in his heart? Actually, it was not only Situ Qingyun who did not understand, even he did not understand how her son, who was still well within the palace, had been injured to such an extent.

"Your sister-in-law and I have been investigating this matter for an entire day, but we have not found anything. We can only wait for that brat to wake up and tell us what happened!" Situ Qingtian interrupted.

"Yes, but he's still unconscious. If it wasn't for the fact that several doctors diagnosed Old Third and needed a rest, I would have immediately taken him to the capital to find Mister Duanmu!" Murong Fenghuang stuttered.

"Oh right, you mentioned that little girl just now? Does Lan Er live together with Ol 'Three? " Since the matter was not cleared up, they could only wait for Gongsun Zaitian to wake up. Hence, Situ Qingyun asked curiously.

"It's not Lan Er, it's not like you don't know it. Old Third always thinks of Lan Er as her little sister, and Lan Er herself knows that as well. That little girl is the Leng Jia Miss who was betrothed to Old Third! " Murong Fenghuang answered.

"Didn't the Leng Jia disagree with the marriage?" Situ Qingyun felt that he was even more confused than if he had been in a war.

"There's no helping it, who told the little girl of the Leng Jia to fall for Old Third, and that Old Third would marry the little girl no matter what!" laughed and said when mentioning his son's fiancee.

"This means that this nephew of mine already has a wife at the age of five?" Situ Qingyun also rejoiced in his heart. Firstly, he found it funny that his nephew would bring back a beauty at such a young age, and secondly, he was genuinely happy that his nephew would be able to return home.

"More or less!" Murong Fenghuang also did not explain the matter of's request to marry after the age of twenty, hence she said vaguely.

"That's great. Ai, I came too hastily this time. I didn't bring anything for my nephew!" Situ Qingyun suddenly felt that he was empty-handed, and that it would be bad if he did not say something about such a joyous event.

"Save it, the fact that you managed to get here so quickly was all done by that kid!" Murong Fenghuang cast a glance at his husband's brother, and started to expose his weakness.

"What's going on?" Situ Qingyun asked.

"It's nothing. It's just that the brat used his father's handwriting to write a letter for you, asking you to come here!" Murong Fenghuang thought of his son's prank and explained.

"This damn kid, I think he's having a tight skin. He's deliberately looking for a beating, isn't he?" Situ Qingyun was furious, the reason he did not sleep well these few days, and did not eat well, was because he was worried that his brother's wife's family would encounter some mishap, he did not expect all of this to be a little kid's prank, how could he not be angry?

"However, we need you to hurry over since this kid accidentally bumped into us. This place is a little troublesome!" Situ Qingtian tried to smooth things over as he continued to recount what happened at the banquet, as well as the attitude of the various big gangs.

"I say, could it be that all of this was caused by that brat, Ol 'Three?" Situ Qingyun was truly worthy of being a general. After hearing his brother explain the gist of the matter, he faintly felt that something was amiss. This matter was very coincidental, but it also seemed like a conspiracy.

On the battlefield, coincidences and conspiracies came together. Usually, under some sort of coincidence, there would always be some kind of conspiracy concealed. What happened at the banquet seemed to be extremely troublesome to deal with. If a few big gangs shifted their gaze to Situ Family, it would be hard for them to fight against all four of them. Fortunately, he had brought his troops here, otherwise, it would be very difficult to protect her sister's family with just his hundred men.

"How is that possible? He's only five years old. Even if he's as intelligent as a demon, he still wouldn't be able to count for such a long distance. Writing you a letter is only a matter of a few days before the banquet!" At the beginning, Murong Fenghuang was defending her son, but in the end, she didn't even have the confidence to do so. One must know that there was definitely a reason behind it, so how could such a coincidence happen?

The three of them did not utter a single word as they pondered the same question. Was this a coincidence? Or was it pre-arranged?

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A few days later, in the imperial capital, in the Surveillance Council's main courtyard.

"Principal, I just received a message from the Fengyang City!" A Surveillance Council spy bowed and handed over a small bamboo tube as she spoke.

"En!" Principal Huangfu Wuji received the bamboo tube and replied indifferently, then waved his hand to allow the man to leave.

After the man had left the room, the dean opened the bamboo tube as he mumbled to himself, "It's really getting more and more lively. Is there still a need to use the top secret imprint?"

However, when the dean finished reading the contents of the letter, his expression immediately changed. However, this change also disappeared in an instant, and he then heard his deep voice saying to the outside of the room, "Inform them that everyone at the first level is to immediately come back for a meeting. They are not to be absent. Wait for my return!"

Thereafter, Principal Huangfu Wuji did not wait for anyone outside to reply and disappeared from the room.

The imperial capital. The imperial study of the imperial palace.

"We pay our respects to Your Majesty!" Principal Huangfu Wuji bowed and greeted.

"Dean, please rise!" "What brings the dean here today?" His Majesty might have been in a good mood today, hence he said this to Huangfu Wuji half-jokingly.

"Your Majesty, I have an important matter to report to you today!" Huangfu Wuji said with a serious expression.

"Oh? Tell me about it! " The emperor was obviously interested, he put down the red ink pen in his hand and looked up at Huangfu Wuji, waiting for his report.

"Fengyang City, relieving stroke sent some news and discovered the personal command medallion of the Duke Palaces' guards. At the same time, he also discovered that before Feng Yang, County Governor Wu Daode had given these guards over twenty large boxes. According to their investigation, all of them should be in silver taels, their initial estimate is not less than five hundred thousand silver taels." Huangfu Wuji repeated himself.

"What?" Which royal palace? Greed has so much silver, do they not want to live? " The emperor was obviously shocked by the content of these words. Five hundred thousand taels was not a small sum.

"Your Majesty, please calm your anger. Based on the recent developments, it should be the guards from the Ninth Prince Palace, but the strange thing is, these guards sent so much silver to the north. This matter is worth considering!" Huangfu Wuji had also come prepared, although it was only a speculation, it was still convincing.

"According to the dean's words?" The north was previously under the responsibility of the Ninth Prince, and although they were now under Situ Qingyun's control, with the help of the Situ Family and the Situ Family, there were still some forces of the Ninth Prince in the north, after all, and with the five hundred thousand silver being smuggled to the north, what was the Ninth Prince trying to do? However, there was one thing for sure. No matter what, it would not be a good thing.

"Your Majesty, right now, we do not have any evidence, so this subject wants to ask for Eunuch Wei's help to thoroughly investigate the whereabouts of the tael of silver!" Huangfu Wuji did not hastily continue. This matter was too big, if the Ninth Prince wanted to raise their army privately, then their motive would be obvious. But as a prince, there was no way he could be convicted because of these superficial evidence. He had to have actual evidence.

"Five hundred thousand!" "Hmph, so generous, the imperial government forced out 300,000 taels for this disaster relief. Yet, they secretly took it away with 500,000 taels!" The emperor's rage did not subside. It seemed that he was truly infuriated.

"Not only that, according to the report from the Surveillance Council, they even impersonated a minister. This is a heinous crime!" Huangfu Wuji added on.

Huangfu Wuji's actions were a little overboard, luckily his majesty was not someone to be suspicious of, nor was he a bloodthirsty person, if not the things he said today would probably make his majesty the Emperor think of the Party and Government.

"Hmph, Ninth, this is too arrogant. This is a secret, don't spread the news!" "Remember!" His Majesty warned him repeatedly. After all, this matter involved the royal family, so he could not afford to be careless.

"I did." Huangfu Wuji bowed and replied.

"As for what we should do with Ol 'Nine, let me consider a little more!" On one hand, he was afraid that he would carry the notoriety of murdering his brother and killing his brother. On the other hand, the Ninth Prince still had some 'wings' on the side of the imperial court, if they were to rashly touch him, it would cause chaos in the imperial court.

"Then, this old official will look for the Eunuch Wei to discuss on how to investigate!" Huangfu Wuji bowed and turned to leave.

Watching Huangfu Wuji turn around and leave, the emperor slammed the teacup on the table and cried out in anger, "Ahh! This bunch of brothers of mine are really worried! "

? ?.

When Huangfu Wuji returned to the meeting room of the Surveillance Council, it was already filled with people. Almost all of the higher ups in the Surveillance Council were there.

Seeing that, Huangfu Wuji laughed inexplicably, as if he remembered something. However, he immediately withdrew his smile and sat at the head of the group with a solemn look on his face.

"There's something important that brought everyone here!" Huangfu Wuji did not waste any words, and spoke first.

"Principal, could it be that it's similar to the big event that happened five years ago?" The chief of the second branch asked first.

"Hehe, I think it's about the same!" Huangfu Wuji chuckled, and replied indifferently.

"What?" Five years ago, the Surveillance Council killed many people who were able to form a small hill. Although these people were all going to die, they were still human lives after all. To die under a butcher's knife, just looking at the amount was enough to make them tremble.

"Take a look at this first!" Huangfu Wuji said as he threw a folded letter out.

A few of them were not polite either, after looking at the letters from the Fengyang County s, they were shocked at first and then they went silent.

"I think so!" Say your opinion! " Huangfu Wuji said to everyone present.

"Dean, this involves the royal family!" The director of the third branch said.

"So what? Are you afraid of royalty? " The dean asked everyone in return.

"It's true that I'm afraid, but ?" The director of the fifth branch said.

"I just want to live for two more years. I don't want to be silenced, right?" The dean smiled and began to speak out the unspoken words for him.

Being a spy for the imperial government was not just a matter of loyalty, but also a matter of life and death. After all, there were many things that one could not know without knowing them, and curiosity might not be able to kill a cat in normal times, but if it was related to politics and the secret of the imperial family, then one would be as dead as one could be, because everyone present knew that only the dead could guard some secrets.

"Hehe ?" Everyone gave a noncommittal smile. They both tacitly agreed to the Headmaster's words, but they also didn't want to continue with the Headmaster's words.

"Alright, I've already reported this matter to His Majesty. Our mission is to investigate the whereabouts of this huge sum of money. As for everything else, don't worry about it!" Just report it to the king as it is! " Huangfu Wuji did not tease them, and explained the mission to them.

"Yes sir!" Everyone acknowledged the order in unison.